grievejia
Operator overloading for basic combinators
Hi,
It would be nice to have operator| and operator+ as a shorthand for alt and seq.
Has it not be done already by design?
The many combinator could also be aliased by unary operator*, as in Boost.Spirit, but that's a bit more controversial since the standard syntax would be a postfix operator rather than prefix.
In any case, very well done library!
Thank you for the comment!
Honestly speaking, I never thought this repo would draw interest from anyone other than myself, so I didn't put a lot of thoughts on ergonomics of the APIs. For my personal uses, I could live with seq, alt and many just fine, but I agree that operator| and operator+ could make the client codes much terser.
Off the top of my head, adding those overloads should be a fairly simple task. I'll try to do it when I got some time to spare. Again, I appreciate your suggestion.
Personally I don't quite like the pervasive uses of operator overloading in Boost.Spirit. Changing the meaning of unary * is also something that I try to avoid, as for my taste the readability improvement of it doesn't seem to justify the confusion it may potentially cause.
